But mark another stage of the propagation of these horrible principles.
After having grounded upon them the defence of his conduct against our
charge, and after he had got a person to forswear them for him, and to
prove him to have told falsehoods of the grossest kind to the House of
Commons, he again adheres to this defence. The dog returned to his
vomit. After having vomited out his vile, bilious stuff of arbitrary
power, and afterwards denied it to be his, he gets his counsel in this
place to resort to the loathsome mess again. They have thought proper,
my Lords, to enter into an extended series of quotations from books of
travellers, for the purpose of showing that despotism was the only
principle of government acknowledged in India,--that the people have no
laws, no rights, no property movable or immovable, no distinction of
ranks, nor any sense of disgrace. After citing a long line of travellers
to this effect, they quote Montesquieu as asserting the same facts,
declaring that the people of India had no sense of honor, and were only
sensible of the whip as far as it produced corporal pain. They then
proceed to state that it was a government of misrule, productive of no
happiness to the people, and that it so continued until subverted by the
free government of Britain,--namely, the government that Mr.
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